Noga Shatz - "Good Fortune" 2026
acrylic on canvas
7.5 cm x 7.5
also Available for purchase "Blue", BAGT Editions 2
Noga Shatz is a London-based multidisciplinary artist associated with Blackhorse Lane Studios in Walthamstow, East London, where she works as part of the Barbican Arts Group Trust (BAGT) studio community. She is listed among the resident artists at Blackhorse Lane Studios and regularly participates in Blackhorse Lane Open Studios exhibitions and BAGT projects.
Shatz holds an MFA with distinction from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. Her practice combines; painting, textile-based work, printmaking.
Music and performance influences Shatz's installation work.
Her work explores themes of , queer identity, femininity using mythololgical and historical narratives. A defining feature of her practice is the use of hand-dyed, unstretched canvases. Rather than treating the canvas as a rigid support, she allows fabric to hang freely in space, creating hybrid works that sit between painting, textile and sculpture. She describes this approach as a way of breaking away from the traditional “male gaze” associated with formal painting structures. In a 2025 interview she explained: “This fluidity speaks to queerness.”
Shatz is also deeply involved in community and socially engaged art practice. She is the founder of: The Open Art Club CIC.
The Open Art Club is an LGBTQ+ led organisation providing free and subsidised art workshops, talks and community programmes for East London residents. Through the project she has collaborated with organisations including: Drag Syndrome, Arbeit Studios and the Foundation for Future London. She also founded the New River Painting School and co-founded ARTLondon art tours.